NTC helps schools ensure educators are confident, committed, and future-ready.
NTC is tackling the teacher turnover crisis with bold solutions and new approaches to talent development from early career to career professional.
A teacher’s first years shouldn’t be a survival test. NTC bridges gaps between teacher prep and teaching practice helping schools offer quality mentoring and a strong, relational community culture.
Teachers work and learn best together. NTC supports strong educator partnerships and collaborative teams focused on improving practice.
Leadership is part of a continuum of growth. NTC helps schools develop talent within, growing leadership in every role, at every career stage with support for team building and tailored professional learning.
Our commitment is to strengthen the teaching profession. NTC’s support is personal, practical, and built to last.
Every district and each school is unique (and complex). Our crosscutting, research-driven programs focus on creating the best conditions for teaching and learning — moving bold ideas to action.
Develop new teacher talent with mentoring and induction that drives growth, collaboration, effectiveness, and retention.
Bridge research and practice with job-embedded coaching that improves instruction and drives student and educator growth.
Build leadership capacity across roles to create strong instructional cultures, increase retention, and drive systemwide improvement.
Align and implement curriculum and assessment for instructional excellence and keep teachers in the profession.
For decades, we’ve known the devastating toll of teacher turnover. Yet, we continue to leave new teachers to sink or swim. Teacher churn destabilizes schools with costly consequences, especially for students.
of student learning can be lost over time due to turnover-driven impacts 15
in terms of students’ lifetime income 14
of new teachers leave before year five — just before they reach peak effectiveness 17
I still remember sitting in my car, staring at the school doors, bracing for another day of feeling overwhelmed and unseen as a new teacher. I loved my students, but the weight of managing it all — lesson plans, classroom dynamics, the endless expectations — felt impossible until I had real, deeply collaborative and relational support from my mentor.
